Research Catalog

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Description

1. xii, 163 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Medicine > Haiti > History > 18th century
2. Healing > Haiti > History > 18th century
3. Enslaved persons > Medicine > History > Haiti > 18th century
4. Black people > Medicine > History > Haiti > 18th century
5. Delivery of Health Care > history > Haiti
6. African Continental Ancestry Group > history > Haiti
7. History, 18th Century > Haiti
8. Medicine, Traditional > history > Haiti
9. Politics > Haiti
10. Social Problems > history > Haiti

Contents

1. Saint Domingue : life in the torrid zone -- European medicine in the torrid zone -- Enslaved healers on the plantation -- Enslaved herbalists -- Makandal and the medical care of animals : the veterinarians who inspired the Haitian revolution -- Magnetism in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue : the case of the enslaved magnetists and their fight for freedom -- The transformative power of the Kaperlata -- Conclusion : the influence of the enslaved healers, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Call number

1. Sc E 06-1242

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.

Author

1. Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee)

Title

1. Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.

Imprint

1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2005035178

Other standard identifier

1. 9780252030857
2. 9780252073212

ISBN

1. 0252030850 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0252073215 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 06-1242